Police employ hog to serve and protect

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There’s a kind of irony associated with America’s oldest and continuously operating motorcycle manufacturer, Harley-Davidson. For years the motorcycles the company produces had (and, in the eyes of many, still have) a sort of outlaw reputation kindled by the 1969 counterculture film “Easy Rider,” and the fact that so many malevolent biker gangs like the Hell’s Angels, Warlocks and Pagans have preferred Harleys as their bikes of choice.

What’s so ironic? Police also prefer Harley-Davidsons.

For decades, police departments all across the United States have used Harley-Davidsons as patrol vehicles to chase down those menace-to-society gang members and other lawbreakers, such as those of us who attempt to exceed the speed limit. Now the Brigantine Police Department has joined the ranks, putting into service on Aug. 14 what Chief Jim Frugoli Jr. says was the first 2010 Harley Electra Glide to roll off the assembly line.

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Cheers,
Speed